412 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [November 



internodes; stipules large, consisting of a triangular-lanceolate 

 upper portion (which is entire and acute, or somewhat acuminate) 

 and a much larger somewhat reniformly expanded basal part 

 (which is usually coarsely and irregularly 3-5-toothed) : flowers 

 large, 3-8, closely approximated at the end of the long (10-15 cm.) 

 axillary peduncles: calyx very oblique, the lanceolate teeth small, 

 each shorter than the part of the tube to which it is attached, 

 except the lower one which is linear and nearly as long as the tube : 

 petals dark blue or purplish, lighter toward the base; the claw of 

 the standard rather broad, sulcately folded and with conspicuous 

 winglike crests at junction with abruptly flexed or reflexed reniform 

 or orbicular emarginate blade; wings broadly elliptic, on a very 



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slender claw shorter than the blade: pods nearly straight, 5-6 cm. 

 or more long, 6-8 mm. broad, about 15-ovuled. 



Resembling and related to L. pauciflorus Fernald, Bot. Gaz. I9"335> i8 94> 

 from which it is readily distinguished by its broad obtuse lower leaflets, its 

 stipules with their remarkably expanded bases, its more numerous and larger 



crownlike 



at the summit of the folded claw. 



Macbride's no. 027, from Silver City, on brush covered hills, J 



191 1, is the type. Mr. William 



Miss 



Mr. A. D. Bradfield 



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ciative student of his local flora, who spent much time in the field assisting 



Mr. Macbride 



Clarkae, n. sd. — Perennial from 



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old petiolar bases: new plants often arising from the nodes of the 

 rootstock at intervals of 2-5 cm.: herbage glabrous: stemless, or 

 stems long (2-3 dm.), weak and procumbent and bearing several 

 normal leaves : leaves mostly on the crowns of the caudex, crowded ; 

 the petioles very slender, 3-10 cm. long; the blade ovate, 2-5 cm. 

 long, tapering rather gradually from near the base to the obtusish 

 apex, the base roundish and shallowly cordate, the margin obscurely 

 crenate and smooth; stipules greenish, linear, with few-many 

 filiform pinnatelv arranged lobes or teeth ■ ned uncles filiform, about 



